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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Goosegirl on January 06, 2013, 13:31

Title: Sweetcorn and dwarf French beans in greenhouse results.
Post by: Goosegirl on January 06, 2013, 13:31

Well - I know this year has been bad for a lot of stuff outdoors, but this trial was a success! I had three sweetcorn plants outside and, despite the windy site, weren't very well pollinated. The greenhouse ones were tapped on their stems (puff - lots of pollen everywhere) and we got full, tasty cobs on all twelve. The French beans were stagger-sown in pots and settled in nicely in front and between the corn and we got a lovely crop. Will do it again this year, as I can't grow tasty toms, so need to use the bed for something productive.

Title: Re: Sweetcorn and dwarf French beans in greenhouse results.
Post by: stompy on January 06, 2013, 13:39

Why can't you grow toms?

Title: Re: Sweetcorn and dwarf French beans in greenhouse results.
Post by: arugula on January 06, 2013, 13:47

We've found french beans do very well in the polytunnel, as does minipop corn. :)

Title: Re: Sweetcorn and dwarf French beans in greenhouse results.
Post by: sunshineband on January 06, 2013, 15:05

Quote from: arugula on January 06, 2013, 13:47

We've found french beans do very well in the polytunnel, as does minipop corn. :)
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Early french beans in the greenhouse are nearly always a huge success (The mice ate the seeds one year  :( )